Family name origins & meanings
- Scottish : habitational name from Selkirk in the Scottish Borders, named from Middle English sale, sele ‘hall’, ‘manor’ + kirk ‘church’.
- Alexander Selkirk (1676–1721), the Scottish sailor who was the model for the fictional Robinson Crusoe, was also known as Selcraig. He was born in Largo, Fife, the son of a shoemaker.